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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






2. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






3. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






4. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






5. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






7. What is the function of vitamin C?






8. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






9. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






10. What is the function of vitamin E?






11. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






12. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






13. What are healthy sources of fats?






14. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






15. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






16. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






17. Name six sources of grains






18. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






19. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






20. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






21. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






22. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






23. Where can you get more vitamin D?






24. When does BMR decrease?






25. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






26. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






27. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






28. What function is vitamin A?






29. What is RDA of protein?






30. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






31. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






32. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






33. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






34. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






35. What is normal BMI?






36. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






37. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






38. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






39. Fats can lead to some medical problems






40. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






41. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






42. What foods have high quality protein?






43. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






44. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






45. What type of people need extra protein?






46. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






47. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






48. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






49. What is normal albumin levels?






50. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?